NCLEX Success_Quiz 3
NCLEX Success Quiz # 3 Med-Surg
1. A nurse is assessing a client who is skeletal traction. Which of the following findings should
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Fever (if it is hot is a sign of infection)
2. A nurse is caring for a client who sustained a femur fracture in an automobile accident and is placed into skeletal traction. The nurse may remove the weights from the traction device if which of the following occurs?
The client develops a life-threatening situation (it is the only time when you remove the skeletal traction. Just if there is a life-threatening situation)
3. A nurse is teaching a newly licensed nurse about the difference between a plaster cast and a synthetic cast. Which of the following information should the nurse include in the teaching?
A synthetic cast is weighs less
4. A nurse is teaching an older adult client who has an intracapsular fracture of the right hip following a fall about the purpose of Buck’s extension traction. The nurse should include which of the following information in the teaching?
Buck’s extension traction will relieve muscle spasms
5. A nurse is teaching a client who has a new prescription for cyclobenzaprine. Which of the following information should the nurse include in the teaching?
Avoid driving until effects are known (this medication is a muscle relaxing)
6. A nurse is caring for a client who has a prescription for balanced skeletal traction with a Thomas splint for the treatment of a fractured femur. Which of the following interventions should the nurse implement to prevent pressure points from developing around the edges of the splint? Reposition the client to keep him from staying in the same position in bed (basic concept and care – safety, caring for the patient)
7. A nurse is developing a plan of care for a client who has a fracture to achieve the outcome of functional healing. To assist in meeting this goal, which of the following nursing interventions is the highest priority? Maintain immobilization and alignment (functional healing = means you want the patient to be at he was before the accident. So, you want him walking, working, and a functioning as usual)
8. A nurse is caring for a toddler who has a fractured right femur and is in Bryant traction. When determining that the traction is appropriately assembled, the nurse should observe which of the following?
The buttocks is elevated slightly of f of the bed
9. A nurse is assessing a client who has a cast in place for a fractured tibia. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?
Checking capillary refill (check airway and circulation)
10. A nurse is assessing a client who has multiple fractures in his left leg notes increasing edema. The nurse should recognize this finding as an early manifestation of which of the following complications?
Acute Compartment Syndrome
11. A nurse is caring for a client who is postoperative following an open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) of a femur fracture. Which of the following parameters should the nurse include in the evaluation of the neurovascular status of the client’s affected extremity? (select all that apply)
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